Quotes About Self

Terjadi begitu saja bukan?" kata Gershwin. "Kehidupan menjadi sibuk. Prioritas berubah. Kita hanya bisa menyalahkan diri sendiri, sungguh.

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.

As long as the self is consumed in the struggle to make itself lovely, it cannot love. First it must come to the end of its own resources, for the power to love derives purely and solely from the knowledge that one is already loved in return.

hate makes you a prisoner, not just of them but of yourself.

The benchmark to beat is yourself and your current condition.

The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends.

They hoped that if they dated enough, became popular enough, or achieved enough, they might somehow be able to eliminate their gender identity conflict.

As long as you doubt your sanity, you can't be insane.

Without freedom, no one really has a name.

Alguns dos nossos desejos só se cumprem no outro, os pesadelos pertencem a nós mesmos.

Noa didn't care about being Korean when he was with her; in fact, he didn't care about being Korean or Japanese with anyone. He wanted to be, to be just himself, whatever that meant; he wanted to forget himself sometimes.

He wanted to be, to be just himself, whatever that meant; he wanted to forget himself sometimes.

Every day you are closer to your death. You are half-dead already. Where does your identity come from?

I think he just got tired of trying to be a good Korean and quit. I was never a good Korean.

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

If this is madness," I said to myself, breathing his atmosphere exquisite almost to sanctification, "madness is something very beautiful.

Oh that's right Keep away from me Please give me a push Don't let me understand you Don't realise me Or we might tumble together Depersonalized Identical Into the terrific Nirvana Me you --- you --- me

I once heard somebody express surprise that instead of following it onward one should not take a cut across Time to secure a moment which, stretching out in line with oneself, would last indefinitely.

May your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

Does your mirror Bedevil you?

For there were good men. As long as we women remembered to be strong. As long as we remembered to be ourselves

I'd had to cross the ocean to discover myself, and now I was ready to return in faith, knowing God had something planned for me and I would simply need to trust.

Whom did I belong to?

To simply be ourselves is the greatest challenge but the simplest spiritual technique. A